I'm Habla Kennington and this is the Habla Kennington podcast.

I'm really honored that you've joined me today for a conversation on a topic that seems

to resonate with a lot of you.

In fact, I posted the topic a little while ago on our Instagram and I found so many of you

cheering me on as I began to talk about this topic.

I was shocked, honestly, I was shocked at how many of you resonated with this and retweeted

and reposted and asked for more on this topic.

Back, I thought to myself, how have I not touched on this topic sooner and it really was an

oversight, wasn't something I intentionally did.

But the topic was around self acceptance.

The idea of accepting oneself for who we are, not for what we do, not for what somebody

else thinks of us as, but simply accepting the way we were created and made.

It's easy for us as believers to talk about us being made in the image of God.

We kind of cheer the thought that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, but a lot of us deal

with self rejection, self hatred, and we don't even know we are.

We just assume that that's part of our life, our lifestyle.

And so I want to talk for a few minutes about this idea of self acceptance, the self worth.

I started with the quote, if what we see in the mirror is an example of God's passion

and creativity, but we hate it, how can we really trust him with our lives?

If this is an example of his greatest work, what that means is every time we look at

ourself in the mirror, we hate it, we test it, we avoid it, and we can't imagine somebody

loving it or liking it.

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